That freshly peeled back look,
polished city surfaces reflect
sunshine harmony out of a can:
a few solar degrees of rotation
Cháng Jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng.
Our friends the trees wake with us
a tremor, a shimmer in their trunks,
while we scurry like children below
their fine fingers of summer leaves
breaking over us in waves of light.
Notes :
长江后浪推⧸催前浪.
Cháng Jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng.
Literally : the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom).
‘The new is constantly replacing the old’
Early Morning Nanjing
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